The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2024 than it has in almost a decade. ICE’s annual report released on Dec. 19 showed the agency removed 271,484 immigrants to 192 countries from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024. An estimated 11 million illegal immigrants arrived in the […]
Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for director of national intelligence (DNI), picked up a key endorsement from the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). The NBPC—a labor union representing 18,000 Border Patrol agents and support personnel across the country—endorsed Gabbard in a on Dec. 17. letter addressed to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Cotton […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in an attempt to deter last-minute illegal immigration into the state, has announced an advertising campaign warning migrants attempting the dangerous journey to the southern border that they face arrest and deportation. Abbott held a press conference on Dec. 19 on a private ranch near Eagle Pass, where women had been […]
A Missouri bill would create a program through which residents would receive $1,000 for reporting illegal immigrants who are arrested by trained bounty hunters or law enforcement. Senate Bill 72, pre-filed by Senator-elect David Gregory on Dec. 1, is one state measure that would attempt to combat illegal immigration, an issue that helped propel President-elect […]
President-elect Donald Trump recently hinted that he has a relatively lenient position on Dreamers, or illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, signaling they might not be part of his planned mass deportation. Trump has said the mass deportation would start first with criminals. Mexican immigrant Roberto Lujan, who currently sells […]
The Biden administration announced a rule change on who can apply for a H-1B work visa, a key U.S. visa program that employs foreign workers in specialty occupations generally requiring a college degree. A number of major U.S. technology companies use H-1B visas to find people to work jobs that are deemed hard to fill, […]
LOS ANGELES—A California man was sentenced Monday to nearly 3.5 years in prison for running an extensive business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship. U.S. authorities had sought a more than five-year prison term for Michael Wei Yueh Liu, 59, who was […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Dec. 11 the fourth charter flight in six months to deport Chinese nationals found unlawfully residing in the United States. The large-frame charter flight departed from the United States on Dec. 9, according to a department statement. The DHS said the removal of Chinese illegal immigrants was […]
National Republican strategist Ash Wright and Democratic strategist Haley Lickstein discuss with NTD’s Steve Lance the public opinion influence on jurors, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s efforts to change the city’s sanctuary city law, and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for border czar Tom Homan’s warning to mayors of sanctuary cities who impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would work to end birthright citizenship and signaled that he could deport families with mixed immigration statuses. Trump’s mass deportation proposal was a major component of his 2024 presidential campaign, and last month, the president-elect said he would declare a national emergency over the matter. […]
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s open to working with Democratic Party lawmakers to make a deal on allowing Dreamers to stay in the United States. “I will work with the Democrats on a plan,” Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker that aired Dec. 8. That’s in reference to recipients […]
Mexican authorities this week said they detained two men and made a historic seizure of more than a ton of fentanyl in Sinaloa. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the bust was the biggest in the country’s history. Retired Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Victor Avila joined NTD to discuss. Avila […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced more picks for his new administration on Thursday evening. Trump revealed his plans via Truth Social to expand his Homeland Security team and named four individuals to help “secure our interests in the Western Hemisphere.” He also named a White House “artificial intelligence and crypto czar” and the U.S ambassador to China. […]
NTD spoke to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term agenda and how Congress can collaborate on his key initiatives like deporting criminal migrants and reducing waste and fraud via the Department of Government Efficiency.
The Los Angeles City Council on Dec. 4 formally approved a “sanctuary city” ordinance, which will prohibit resources or personnel from assisting with federal enforcement of immigration laws. The council voted 12–0 in favor of the ordinance with an urgency clause, meaning it could go into effect within 10 days of being signed by Mayor […]
SEATTLE—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can continue using a Seattle airport for chartered deportation flights, a federal appeals court ruled in a decision that rejected a 2019 local order that sought to counter then-President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The agency has long used airports around the country to charter flights deporting hundreds of thousands of […]
Authorities in Mexico dissolved two caravans of would-be illegal immigrants heading to the United States, just days after President-elect Donald Trump warned he would levy a 25 percent tariff on imports from the country. Migrant activists said this week that some were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers. Migrant […]
